dress up
— phrasal verb with dress uk/dres/us/dres/verb
to put on formal clothes for a special occasion:
You don't need to dress up to go to the mall - jeans and a T-shirt are fine.
to put on special clothes in order to change your appearance:
Little kids usually love dressing up in their mothers' clothes.
He dressed up as a cowboy for the party.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Putting clothes on
- arrayed
- bundle
- bundle (sb) up
- doll
- doll yourself up
- dolled up
- dress
- fling sth on/off
- get yourself/sb up
- glam
- glam (yourself) up
- make yourself respectable idiom
- put
- rig
- slip
- slip into sth
- throw
- throw sth on
- try sth on
- wrap
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